Trying to Loft with two rails & fully defined sketches

[ANH.TRUONG9G38A]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to perform the loft command for the below part, with Sketch 1 and 2 being Sections, Sketch 3 and 4 being Rails (ignore all construction lines). But I am stuck at it for I don't know what was wrong. 

I could be able to loft Sketch 1 to Sketch 2 with only one rail on Sketch 4, or no rails. The reason all 4 are required is because this surface is part of a sheet metal part of 0.23mm thickness and I needed to ensure this surface comes smooth with other adjacent surfaces.

Below is screenshot of the part I'm trying to model.

Appreciate any comments and support from you guys!

Regards

Anh

[blandb · Accepted solution]

Instead of trying to loft that way, what if you just created a work plane for each level, patch the areas on each step, then loft the gap. Please see the attached part for reference.

[Bill_Bogan2]

Another thought might be to use emboss.

 

 

[ANH.TRUONG9G38A · Accepted solution]

Thanks Blandb,

I solved this seeing your use of Patch then Stitch command, it solves it all. That's awesome. Very appreciate that!

The reason I did not use different work planes was because there's no surface horizontal to XZ plane. Below highlighted in red is the rails I needed to meet to ensure the lofted surface will come smooth with other previously generated surfaces which were based on sections of the blue sketch.

[ANH.TRUONG9G38A]

Thanks Bill.

I will obviously use Emboss command if the surfaces are spaced in level, but turns out they are sections of multiple waves like this. But I solved this and replied in the other comment.